Showing posts with label Natural history illustrations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural history illustrations. Show all posts

Vintage Natural History Illustration: Crested Fern (Lastrea cristata)

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost

19th century botanical illustration of a crested fern (Lastrea cristata) from c1850 by British illustrator Anne Pratt (1806–1893). Printable 4" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here. Larger image size available for licensing. Please inquire.

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Vintage Natural History Illustration: Yellow Canary (Crithagra flaviventris)

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

19th century illustration of a yellow canary (Crithagra flaviventris) in a cage
4.5" x 6" @ 300 ppi JPEG without a watermark here.

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